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Is it possible to create a slipstreamed SP2+SP3+IE7+WMP11 disk at this point? I've seen posts here and elsewhere stating that you can't integrate IE7/WMP11 first because SP3 overwrites files with older versions. Has anyone successfully done the reverse? That is, integrate/slipstream IE7/WMP11 over SP3? If so, how? TIA.

Thank you all... it's starting to make more sense!

I'm sorry but I just don't understand. That's been my problem trying to read about this here and elsewhere. I've downloaded IE7, MP11, and DirectX from Microsoft download. They're all .exe files. Can I use these? Do I need to convert them to some other format? Or do I need something else entirely. How does an "addon" differ from these? If these are really stupid questions, could you point me to someplace here or elsewhere which explains it to a beginner? Re: RyanVM's update pack. If I install this first and then install IE7 afterwards, for instance, how do I get the updates to IE7 incorporated (there have been some, no?). Or does the full download from MSFT already include the updates? Sorry for what may be lame questions. Just trying to make sense of all this. TIA

Hello All, First post. Very new at this. Thanks for being here and helping! I have an XP-SP2 Dell OEM CD that I would like to update with all the hotfixes and add the three other items in the title - will be installed on Dell machines. Played around a bit with the Ryan package of hotfixes (Feb) and very easily got that integrated (is that the right word?) into my disk. Burned a new disk and tried it out. No problems (well... it seemed to be missing two critical updates for MP9 - I figured that was left out on purpose since there were two newer versions). I'm confused as to the rest though. I THINK I should incorporate these first, before the hotfixes, no? So that other hotfixes in the Ryan package can be applied? If so, how do I do that? For instance, I've downloaded the directx 9.0c stand-alone package from Microsoft. Do I need to somehow extract all the files? Do I just add the whole .exe file as-is to nlite as a hotfix? Could someone walk me through this please? And, are all three of these the same? Do I deal with IE7 and MP11 just as I would Directx? Is there a particular order? Sorry if some of this is completely stupid-sounding but I just haven't been able to figure it out by the various helps or by drilling into the message base with searches. TIA!